ovid

Question 1

why was ovid exiled?

Answer 1

because of a carmen and an error. carmen = ars amatoria and error = a scandal with imperial family

Question 2

what lines primarily focus on the theme of love being like a war?

Answer 2

the first and last lines in book three

Question 3

list some ideas of who the audience is and why they’re

Answer 3

• married women (comitting adultery problematic)
• younger girls (corrupting youth)
• prostitutes (degraded piece of literature)
• slaves (unnecessary and unrealistic kindness)
• freed women (all appy)

Question 4

name the good and bad mythological women Ovid lists in part one

Answer 4

bad: helen, clytemenestra, rriphyle
good: penelope, laodameia, alcestis, evadne

Question 5

how does Ovid do bathos in part one

Answer 5

he builds it up by listing all the mythological examples and then says never mind ‘yet their aims are not required for my art’

Question 6

how can ovid compare to the odyssey in part one?

Answer 6

venus orders Ovid to create this book as if she is the muse ‘Venus herself and ordered me to teach you’. Elevates his work

Question 7

how does Ovid use a tricolon to describe horrors of aging in part one?

Answer 7

sagging flesh wrinkles
colour is lost from the bright cheek
hairs that you’ll swear were grey from your girlhood

Question 8

what two animals do Ovid compare to show that humans age ungracefully in part one?

Answer 8

‘snakes shed their old age with fragile skin, antlers that are cast make the stag seem young’

Question 9

what is the main message of part two?

Answer 9

contrast between contemporary and ancient Rome implies girls should be more civilised

Question 10

what sites in Rome are mentioned in part 2?

Answer 10

‘look what the Capitol is now’
‘the Senate house now worhy of such debates’
‘where the Palatine now gleams with Apollo and our leaders’

Question 11

how does Ovid use a priamel in part two?

Answer 11

he contrasts what others may admire with what he admires

Question 12

what does Ovid compare the three hairstyles to in part three?

Answer 12

laodamia (small knot on top), Phoebus (throw hair over shoulders), Diana (tied up)

Question 13

how does Ovid use humour in part three to show baldness(similie)

Answer 13

‘our hair snatched at by time, falls like the leaves stripped by the north wind’

Question 14

what mythological women does Ovid use in part three to describe what dresses suit people?

Answer 14

dark grey suited white Briseis, Andromeda in white

Question 15

in part 4 what 4 examples of art that started out ugly is used?

Answer 15

‘signature of busy Myron was once dumb mass, hard stone’
‘to make a ring first crush the golden ore’
‘the dress you wear was greasy wool’
‘rough marble now it forms a famous statue’

Question 16

how does Ovid sexualise Venus in part 4?

Answer 16

‘naked Venus squeezing water from her wet hair’

Question 17

what sailing metaphor does Ovid use in part 5?

Answer 17

the sailor rests secure when the sea’s calm; when it’s swollen he uses every aid (refers to calm sea beauty and swollen sea ugliness that needs makeup)

Question 18

in part 5 how does Ovid give his advice to physical faults?

Answer 18

‘let an ugly foot be hidden in snow white leather’
‘make sparing use of gestures’
‘strong breath don’t talk’
‘keep your mouth a distance from your lover’

Question 19

how does Ovid describe teeth in a tricolon of hyperbolic descriptions to be humourous in part 6?

Answer 19

‘teeth are blackened, large or not in line’

Question 20

what pos. way does Ovid describe laughter and then neg. ways in part 6?

Answer 20

pos: aquire beuaty, small dimple, soft and feminine
neg: guffawing, shakes with laughter, laughs stridently

Question 21

who are Callimachus, Philetas and Anacreon listed in part 7?

Answer 21

Hellenistic poets who wrote love elegies (shows Ovid’s literary expertise)

Question 22

how does ovid elevate himself in part 7?

Answer 22

Mentions virgil indirectly before
refers to his future self as ‘master’
mentions his works such as amroes, ars amartoria and the heroides

Question 23

what semantic field of words does Ovid use to describe the love affairs gone wrong and the suffering that comes along with it in part 8?

Answer 23

‘anger enters, ugly mischief’
‘quarrels and fights and anxious pain’
‘outraged deities’
‘cheeks wet with tears’

Question 24

how does love be compared to a game in part 8?

Answer 24

‘playing often brings on love’
‘in a game the naked heart’s exposed’

Question 25

what activities does ovid list in part 9 to contrast the female’s game of manipulation?

Answer 25

‘swift ball’
‘javelin
‘hoop’
‘swim’

Question 26

how does ovid subvert expectations in part 9 of girls being more active in a relationship? (3 examples)

Answer 26

‘lovely girls, the crowd is useful to you’
‘ the wolf shadows many sheep to snatch just one’
‘jupiter’s eagle stoops on many birds’

Question 27

What is ovid’s message from including Danae in part 9?

Answer 27

‘who’d known of Danae if she’d always be imprisoned and lay hidden an old woman in her tower’

Question 28

how does Ovid target his male audience in part 9

Answer 28

lists places that only men can go to:
field of mars, aqua virgo, pompey’s porch

Question 29

what mythological beasts does Ovid use to compare women’s heavely voices to in part 7?

Answer 29

‘the sirens were sea monsters’
‘Ulysses, your body nearly melted hearing them’

Question 30

how does Ovid oppose the ideals of marriage in part 9?

Answer 30

‘often a lover’s found at a husband’s funeral: walking with loosend hair and unchecked weeping suits you’

Question 31

what descriptions does ovid use to describe the trickery of men in part 10?

Answer 31

‘some will attack you with a lying pretence of love’
‘among them all’s a thief and burns with love of your finery’

Question 32

how does ovid justify writing letters to other lovers in book 11?

Answer 32

‘countering fraud with fraud’s allowed, the law lets arms be wielded against arms’

Question 33

which two mythological characters do Ovid use as stereotypes of misery in part 12?

Answer 33

tecmessa (ajax killed her father anf took her as his concubine) and andromache (Hector’s wife)

Question 34

how does Ovid throw a veiled insult at augustus in part 12?

Answer 34

‘why should we be afraid of the leader’s name’

Question 35

what analogy does Ovid try and empower women in relationships in part 13?

Answer 35

no rider rules a horse that’s lately known the reins’

Question 36

what yonic imagery does Ovid frequently use to represent?

Answer 36

a door or an opening

Question 37

what tricks do Ovid advise to make the husbands anxious in part 14?

Answer 37

‘stir him with a dismal watchman’
‘show signs of fear on your face’
‘a clever maid should leap up and and cry we’re lost’

Question 38

how does Ovid invert roman comedies in part 14?

Answer 38

calls the husband ‘irksome’ which is normall what the woman is called
uses stock scene in roman mimes ‘you hide the trembling youth in any hole’